President Mann

Well, tomorrow we head off on five days of zone conferences all around the mission. This cycle our doctrinal theme is the Atonement and our readiness theme is Being Like Unto Moroni. On this trip we leave Monday afternoon to drive to Newcastle about 4 hours northwest of here and have interviews for potential district leaders followed on Tuesday by district leader training and zone conferences. Tuesday afternoon we drive on to Swaziland (about 4 more hours north) to have interviews that night and districe and zone conferences on Wednesday then off to Richards bay (about five hours.) At Richards Bay I meet with the Bishop and then have conferences on Thursday. Thursday afternoon we head back to Durban for zone conferences on Friday and Saturday. This time Susan gets to come with me and that will be great. It has been raining a lot all month and everything this trip will be bright green. Swaziland is really pretty in the spring.
Next Sunday Susan and I leave for Johannesburg for a mission presidents conference with Elder Scott, the Area Presidency and all the other mission presidents from the area. It will be great to see them all.
It has been a lot of work but we are starting to see success in the mission. The key indicators for all the zones are up and baptisms are coming up too. The missionaries have really taken to the new programs, put their hearts and souls into it and it is great to see them having success. Susan and I are having a wonderful time and I think the boys are starting to find ways to enjoy what they are doing to. Hope this finds you all well.
I don't know quite how to sign this so.
Steve, President Mann, dad, take your choice.